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BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival: What Do We Mean by "Working Class Writing?"

in association with New Writing North

Saturday 10th March, 2018. 10.15am - 11.15am

Booking Information

To guarantee your ticket book in advance. There will be some tickets available on the day on a first come, first served basis.

Venue: Northern Rock Foundation Hall

Tickets: Free but ticketed (Max 4 per person)

Details

Kit de Waal, Darren McGarvey, Adelle Stripe and Michael Chaplin join Shahidha Bari to examine what we mean by ‘working class writing’. Crowd funding has helped bring a new generation of authors into print but is this because mainstream publishing has neglected diverse voices? What experiences do we want to see on the page and stage?

Kit de Waal’s short stories include “Crushing Big”, “I am the Painter’s Daughter” and “The Beautiful Thing” – which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. De Waal used some of her advance for her debut novel My Name Is Leon to found the Kit de Waal Creative Writing Fellowship to improve working-class representation in the arts.

Darren McGarvey, author of Poverty Safari, is also known as Loki, a Scottish hip-hop artist, writer and community activist..

Adelle Stripe’s debut novel Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile is inspired by the life and work of Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar. It was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and received the K Blundell Trust Award for Fiction.

Michael Chaplin has written extensively for TV, radio and theatre. He is also the editor of Hame, a collection of essays, short stories and poems by his father Sid Chaplin, the acclaimed writer whose works are mostly set in the North East.

Shahidha Bari is Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and Fellow of the Forum for European Philosophy at the LSE. She appears as a critic on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row and Saturday Review and has presented documentaries and BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking.

For your information…

Phase one tickets will be available from 12noon on Monday 5 February, with phase two tickets available from 12noon on Monday 19 February.

Tickets are strictly limited to four per person.

To guarantee your ticket book in advance. There will be some tickets available on the day on a first come, first served basis.

Please take your seats 10 minutes prior to the event start time otherwise you may lose your place.